Category Archives: Nutrition

May is Better Sleep Month. Who doesn’t love a good night’s sleep? (Well, small children but they can’t read this.) We’ll be publishing a tip a day for the entire month of May. Each tip is to help you sleep better through minor changes to your daily life. So come back daily to sleep betterRead More »

Sleep and Weight Loss There are a couple oft-cited “epidemics” in America, one being obesity, and the other inadequate sleep. Unfortunately, it’s not just attention-grabbing headlines: according to studies, over one third of Americans are obese, and one third don’t get enough sleep. The closeness of these two figures may be more than coincidence. ARead More »

For the next couple weeks, the world will come together to watch in awe as the world’s most elite Olympic athletes come together and showcase their incredible—almost superhuman—skill. Every four years, the summer Olympics present us again with these feats of human physicality, and every time we are once again amazed. Because, well, what theyRead More »

When you think about it, it’s intuitive: sleep gives your body energy by allowing it to reset, recover, and rebuild; without sleep, your body is left feeling sluggish, depleted, and weak. But the ways sleep (or lack thereof) can affect your fitness extend beyond this basic concept and to almost every area of athletic performance.Read More »

CrossFit is not enough to become fit. Clean eating is not enough to nourish the body. The truth is that if you want to be stronger and faster (as well as have more coordination and a better recovery time), you need to make two promises to yourself that go beyond diet and exercise: to invest inRead More »

When people think about what vitamins can do for them, they often conjure images of feeling more energetic, being more clear-headed, seeing more clearly, fighting off sicknesses more effectively. They think about the impact these little pills will have on their day-to-day lives. But what about their night-to-night lives? We don’t think of these benefitsRead More »